Gill Callister is the former secretary of Victoria’s Department of Education and Training. She about the perils of an “ethically neutral” organisational culture, her new job, and backsliding on women in leadership
The government is reportedly considering a proposal to enable the Australian Signals Directorate to access the networks of companies operating critical infrastructure to defend them against cyber attacks.
Bob McMullan and Sean Innis explore the demands and support surrounding government ministers. They are responsible for running important portfolio areas, even though they’re unlikely to have professional expertise in that area. Despite all this responsibility, and power, ministers arrive in the job with no training.
Margarine, canned goods and modern billiard balls all resulted from national innovation challenges. After fuelling much of the competition that defined the early 20th century aviation era, innovation challenges are going back to their pedigree: the public sector.
Minister of State Services Chris Hipkins has announced the most significant changes to the New Zealand Public Service since the State Sector Act of 1988. Below is his full speech, delivered on June 26, 2019.
The importance of thinking about how implementation is going to work when designing policy is well recognised but remains a challenge, said Sir Chris Wormald in an address to our APS.
The buck stops with you and the problems start with you: Are you after accountability or accountability theatre?
New housing in Australia must meet minimum energy performance requirements. We wondered how many buildings exceeded the minimum standard.
The influential former Australian Public Service executive Carmel McGregor talks to Verona Burgess about forging a career of meaningful impact.
Even though death taxes are a long way from becoming law, in a very different sphere, laws about death have been a focus of several of our parliaments.
THE COALFACE Readiness is essential to managing a crisis, but there are limits to its effectiveness -- and history shows we often fail to anticipate events that haven’t happened before
Marie-Louise Ayres, director-general of the National Library of Australia, is the nation’s top librarian. She talks to Stephen Easton about the culture of innovation that has allowed the NLA to remain an international leader in its field for decades, relying entirely on its own in-house expertise.
A recently leaked recording captured Queensland Health director-general Michael Walsh candidly discussing why public servants find it hard to be so candid in public.
To assess the value of the Census, we need to assess the additional value it generates over alternatives in its absence.
If your department is underfunded and overworked, reading about other agencies’ ambitious innovation projects can be overwhelming. But most government innovations aren’t built with big budgets or flashy technology.
